Studies in Digital Heritage (SDH) is a peer-reviewed academic journal established by the Office of Scholarly Publishing (OSP) and the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory at Indiana University. The mission of SDH is to promote the open exchange of information and knowledge among researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and others who strive to improve the collection, use, management, preservation, and dissemination of digital cultural heritage. Its vision is to be the premier forum for scholarly discussion across the full spectrum of digital heritage. SDH publishes two issues per year, comprising peer-reviewed research articles and, occasionally, non-peer-reviewed materials such as interviews and editorials. SDH is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Scopus. ISSN 2574-1748
2020-09-12
This year the special issue of "Studies in Digital Heritage" dedicated to the topic "Perceiving Cultural Heritage through Digital Technologies" (volume 3, issue 1) was included in the ADI Design Index, representing a pre-selection as a candidate for the prestigious "Compasso d'Oro" (Golden Compass) prize.
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2026)
The cover image features a rendering from the 3D digital documentation of a funerary context at Palenque, Mexico, where two individuals, a child and an adult male, were interred in a simple grave built of stacked stones. The taphonomy of the two skeletons and the configuration of the whole context suggest that the burial was reopened in the past. Such contexts speak to the Classic Maya conception of death as a passage, evoked by the expression och bih, "he entered the road." The model, created by Mirko De Tomassi in collaboration with the Proyecto Regional Palenque (PREP), belongs to a digital collection published by the Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and designed to address the ethical implications of disseminating 3D data of ancient human remains. The collection and its underlying principles are presented in the article by Mirko De Tomassi and Andreas Frech included in this issue.
Published: 2026-08-25